Sarah "Sally" Hemings (1773 – 1835) was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson and rumored to have had a long-term relationship and 6 children with him (four survived and all gained freedom). The youngest of six siblings by the planter John Wayles and his slave Betty Hemings, Hemings was a half-sister of Mr Jefferson's wife (Martha Wayles Skelton)

Thomas Jefferson - a true Renaissance man, he wrote our Declaration of Independence and Constitution, was an early American diplomat to France, became our 3rd President, was a self-taught botanist, architect and scientist, and he sent the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore what lay to the west of the Mississippi river. A remarkable man.